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Definition of Natural childbirth
1. Noun. Labor and childbirth without medical intervention; no drugs are given to relieve pain or aid the birth process. "Natural childbirth is considered the safest for the baby"
Generic synonyms: Accouchement, Childbearing, Childbirth, Vaginal Birth
Medical Definition of Natural childbirth
1. Psychophysical relaxation techniques that are used to facilitate childbirth. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Childbirth
Literary usage of Natural childbirth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery and Society: A Tribute to Listerism by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1912)
"natural childbirth, as we may observe it amongst primitive peoples — though the
midwife is often to be found there, too — or amongst the lower animals, ..."
2. In a Family Way by Rochelle Hollander Schwab (1995)
"When Susan had been born, Sonya remembered—the only one of her three she'd been
able to have by natural childbirth—she'd been filled with terror at this ..."
3. The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States by William Biddle Atkinson (1878)
"There has also come under his experience a case of natural childbirth, but where,
in the endeavor to remove the placenta, he found, incorporated in the ..."
4. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1919)
"App.) 165 SW 110, proof that decedent had been attended by a physician at a
natural childbirth was held not to show that her neg- ..."
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